aw, thanks. I have warm fuzzy feelings for my pt clinic. I was so depressed when I started going...I had been on crutches for 5 weeks at that point and I had hardly left the house (we don't have a car, and I wasn't in any shape to take public transit). I had been working at home since my injury and I had hardly seen other human beings. I was so miserable and it felt like I would never be able to walk again. Over the next 3 months my pt and the rest of that clinic brought me back to life. On my last session when I said goodbye I started blubbering. I want to write a nice thank you note and send it, because I don't think I articulated myself very well in between sniffling and sobbing.

i went through something similar. after you know what happened, i was so depressed, but then it got worse as the injuries set in. my guy was such a great cheerleader, it got to the point where he could look at me and tell what was going through my head and undo it. i really believe the practice of good physical therapy is an art. sounds like you had great people! i was afraid to stop going to mine. were you? when the time came i cried once i got in the car.

It was so scary! The pt clinic is in the same building as my surgeon's office. I finished the last pt session on my prescription in the morning and I wasn't sure if my surgeon was going to prescribe more or not. I saw him later that day and he said I didn't need pt, nor did I need to go back to him anymore either. It just felt so abrupt - these people (the surgeon, the pt, the clinic staff) had been such a HUGE part of my life for months! I saw them at least two days a week every week for months, and I didn't see much of anyone else at all. It was really scary to all of a sudden be on my own!

I hear about experiences people had with not so in-tune phys therapists and I really can't imagine - they play such a HUGE role in the recovery process!

Hip flexor stretches30 kettlebell swings with 20lb DB"cat vomit" exercise - 10 reps (wish this had a better name...)front plank - 30 sec hold (puts pressure on my tendon, but not in a bad way. I think I just need to be slow with increasing the hold time)side plank - 30 sec hold each side

my calf on my surgery side is sloooowly catching up to my other calf. I wish I had taken a photo when I first got my cast taken off - my calf was essentially non-existent. It's still smaller than the other one, but at least I can feel muscle in there now.

check out my happening new t-shirt at the gym this morning (I swear I don't usually match my headband to my shirt, it just happened by accident!):

First of all, I love your hair. Second of all, your calves don't look too different to me. Third of all, nice arms! The way you're working at it, your lower body will be as strong as you want it to be in no time at all, I am sure.

Well thank you very much on the hair compliment - fact: I actually hate my hair and wear it in a ponytail most of the time, but I'm trying to get over that and now I'm growing it out.

To me my calves look wildly different, but everyone I ask says it's not that noticeable until I start pointing it out - so I guess that's good. I really wish I had taken a picture back in September. My calf looked like a skinny forearm!